Tuesday, 19 February 2013

KINGFISHER BRIDGE, SLOW PROGRESS

THE CONSTRUCTION work on the
Kingfisher Park Bridge is very slow and it seems that the work will need
another one year or so before it can be finally ready for use.

The KK MP Hiew King Cheu was
approached by the road users here during his CNY walkabout complaining to him
about the difficulties that they faced crossing the narrow bridge during the
long traffic jam. The bridge construction suffered a long delay in the
construction work and now is entering into in its fourth year.

There was a long stop work
due to the foundation of the existing bridge being affected by the new bridge
piling work. Later there were remedial works being carried out on the old
foundation before new piling work can proceed. The construction work on the new
bridge has resumed work, but it is rather slow in progress.

MP Hiew views this is
unacceptable, and this reflected the inefficiency of the BN Government. They
can’t even execute a simple job of putting a bridge across the river to help to
solve the traffic jam. What else they can do?

The bridge work should be
speeded up and there should be more workers deployed to work on the bridge for
longer hours. The early completion means less pain for the people living in
Kingfisher Park, and this will also help the Likas Hospital too.

To add insult to the people,
the BN government had even approved a 0.9 KM road spending RM15 million of the
people’s money to get to the State Assembly Building. This is just opposite
this bridge.

The explanation given was
because it is very difficult to construct this road and there is a lot of earth
moving work. Many people said the existing road is fine and why build another
one. The people said it is only few days in a year that the 60 State
Assemblymen actually use this road, and the existing road is good enough for
that purpose.

There is no traffic jam and
not even anything near what they are facing in the Kingfisher Park Bridge, and
so why spend RM15 million to build a road that is not needed. The money to be
spent is not justified and the people said it is solely for the 'Project Purpose'!

KK MP Hiew commented that
the super expensive road linking to the state assembly is not needed at all,
and it must be shelved. The huge sum of money should be utilized to benefit the
people in other areas. This reflects the inconsiderate and irresponsible attitude
of the present government.

Hiew mentioned that there is
actually other access which can be open up to ease the traffic problem in the
Kingfisher Park and the near by housing estates. The government didn’t even
want to put in effort to get these open up and constructed, but choose to spend
huge sum to construct a RM 15 million road to the little used state assembly.
Is the people’s headache and problem more important or the state assembly road
is more important?

Hiew said Pakatan Rakyat
will be a people caring government when it is elected to be the next
government. The people’s problem will be given top priority and attention. It
is what the people want and not what the government wants.